First observations on some traits of the oral cavity in the Neanderthal from Altamura
The Murgia plateau (Apulia, southern Italy) is a geographic area rich of karstic formations such as dolines, blind valleys and caves. One of these formation is the Lamalunga cave, part of a wider karstic complex. During a speleological survey in 1993, in a small chamber, delimited by speleothemes, speleologists found a hominin specimen with the skull stuck in the walls of the chamber and other bones laying on the ground and covered by calcareous concretions.